20 Works by tameimpala
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“You're really gonna drink all that?” Asked Sam, concern and judgement obviously battling it out inside his head. From his tone, concern seemed to be winning for now.
“Well it’s not doing any good sitting in the bottle is it?” Dean said as he took another swig.
Three days after Dean is released from the hospital following his face-off with Alastair, Dean returns to their motel with a bottle of whiskey and his guilt and pain threatening to overwhelm him. Faced with a brother who is becoming increasingly terrifying, he begins to drink and let his mouth run, despite Sam's best efforts to get him to stop.
Set post s04e16 On the Head of a Pin
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On paper, he was a hero. But in reality, his reflection was just a scared little boy. Is this how heroes are meant to feel? Hollowed out and terrified, racked with doubt over whether the monsters they'd slain were truly gone? Wondering if they’d failed?
Following the events in Wadsworth, Dean suffers through the beginning of his nightmares about what he saw there and decides to reach for something to take the edge off.
Pre-series. Set after the flashbacks in S15e16 Drag Me Away (From You)
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Whatever John’s game was, he wasn’t playing fair. And Dean was left wondering how he could ever win.
After collecting Dean from Sonny's Home for Boys, John drives his family through the country into the heat of Arizona and coldly deposits his boys back into school. Dean finds his way into his school's wrestling team again and attempts to recapture the normality he'd experienced at Sonny's, but is soon taught by his father that their life has no place for 'normal'.
Pre-series. Set after the flashbacks in S09E07 Bad Boys
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- Part 5 of Crossfire
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Searing white hot anger pulsated through his entire body. Dean wanted nothing more than to sink his own teeth into the monster’s arm in revenge and finally taste something. After all, it was an eye for an eye. Or in this case- an arm for an arm.
The only food source in Purgatory is Dean, but what if he developed his own taste for the creatures who hunted him?
Set post-season seven and during season eight- AU canon divergence
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He shut the book in horror. It’s awful details of welded metal sinking to the bottom of the ocean bed as he sunk with it. Would the salt-water leak in slowly or fast? Maybe it would drench his clothes and steal his breath whilst Michael screamed and raged inside his head, beating himself bloody against the door that held him until it finally came loose with such explosive force that it would practically render him brain-dead.
“You’d be nothing but blood and bone.”
Dean struggles with the horror of building his own prison and accepting his fate.
Set across s14e10, e11 and e12
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“Dean, we can’t expect her to have an instant connection to us. We don’t know each other yet, not really.”
“Well leaving us is pretty much making sure that we never will.” Dean mumbled quietly, but Sam didn’t miss the resentment and disappointment lingering in his words and sighed in solidarity with his brother’s pain.
Two weeks after Mary decided to leave the bunker, Dean finds a case close by in Oklahoma to distract both himself and Sam from another fresh abandonment. However, it turns out that Dean, mommy-issues, mental asylums, ghosts, and child deaths don't mix well.
Set post s12e03 The Foundry
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The Road to the Kingdom’s Burning Bright (Gospel of John) by tameimpala
Fandoms: Supernatural
04 May 2018
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Follow the sun out of the night. Brother, just lean in to the light.
After a satanic ritualistic hunt with both Dean and John, Bobby is left damaged in an unusual way. 10 months have passed and John attends a funeral that digs up more unfinished business, whilst Dean returns to town with a unsettling biblical message…
As things begin to unravel, John discovers that the destiny’s of his children may be beyond his control.
Set during the Stanford Era: Dean is 24, Sam is 20
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“I was going to get you out Dean. Me.”
The words burned in his throat. He had needed to be the one to free his brother whilst he had been whole and untinged by hell, and perhaps more importantly, whilst Sam had been whole. Maybe it would have been a small victory in the long run, maybe it wouldn’t have changed things, but he’d been in this life long enough to know that small victories stack up.
Sam takes part in his first grave exhumation since he buried his own brother 7 months ago, only for it to unleash past and present trauma.
Set in early Season 04 with a Pre-series Flashback
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Every damn day he had to listen to their whining screams knowing he’d never hear Sam’s voice ever again. It was a joke, their voices all merged into one broken lifeless squeal in the end.
Just white-noise.
There are thousands of voices in hell. And Alastair makes them talk to Dean.
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6 months after Sam left the family business for Stanford and 2 months after John Winchester almost killed his remaining son, Dean sits in another no-tell-motel absently watching his father return to drink. But soon John’s loosened lips reveal that he’s known about a certain habit that the younger hunter had thought he’d been keeping under wraps since that night 8 weeks ago…
Pre-series: Set during the Stanford-Era
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- Part 3 of Crossfire
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Hold it in love, the river in your mouth is pouring out...
A seedy podunk town, a strange run in with a local who appears at the Impala's window, and Sam constantly voicing his disdain for the place they've only just driven into- they all should have set off warning bells in John Winchester's head....
He soon comes to regret leaving his two boys behind in rundown motel to hunt something that has, unbeknownst to them all, marked his eldest son.
Pre-Series: Dean is 9 and Sam is 5
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The Winchesters had been bathed in fire from the beginning...
His father would return to ashes... because, in the end, that's all they ever were.
Just ashes. Embers.A collection of short fics taking place through the seasons and pre-series, all centred around the theme of fire.
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Did you Lock the Door when it Shut, did you see the Knife when it Cut? by tameimpala
Fandoms: Supernatural
20 Oct 2015
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For some unknown reason that probably only God himself knew, partially drunk John was way, way worse than three sheets to the wind John.
Sam returns to their motel after clearing the scene at Amy's house. When his brother and father return John is irritable and hostile as soon as he steps foot through the door. He looks for a drink in their room and ends up finding a fight.
Pre-series: set after the flashbacks in S07E03 The Girl Next Door
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- Part 4 of Crossfire
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This Church of Mine may not be Recognised by Steeple by tameimpala
Fandoms: Supernatural
26 Jun 2015
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"I don’t own a Winchester rifle on principle, you boys cause me enough trouble as it is."
In the wake of one of his father's particularly bad intoxicated episodes, Bobby Singer's Salvage yard offers Dean salvation from his battle wounds.
Pre-series: Deleted chapter from The Boys Who didn't Fly. Set four months after Sam leaves for Stanford
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- Part 2 of Crossfire
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That road outside that you've been taking home forever, that'll be same road that I'll take when I depart.
Following their return from heaven, the scars of past memories that Dean was sure he'd kept hidden from Sam are finally laid bare.
Takes place after S05E17 Dark Side of the Moon with flashbacks to S01E18 Something Wicked, Flagstaff, Sam leaving for college and the Stanford-Era.
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- Part 1 of Crossfire
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“It isn't like Dean not to keep contact, you know that, let alone not show up on his birthday..."
"... Sometimes promises get broken Sammy."
John sent Dean out on his first solo hunt in a different State to them only a few days from his birthday and he hasn't heard anything from him in three days. Sam is adamant they go and find him when his birthday finally arrives but his father gives Dean till the end of the night- after all he did promise Sammy he would be back on the 24th...
Pre-Series: Dean's turning 19 and Sam is 14
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It takes ten minutes and a swig of whiskey to calm down but you don’t go back to sleep. Instead you thank a deadbeat God that your brother wasn't here to see this.
The blood lust was insatiable, and it wasn't a matter of if Dean would crack. It was when.
Coda to S10E09: The Things We Left Behind, told from Dean's perspective (third person).
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And your past times consisted of the strange and twisted and deranged...
After getting injured on a hunt, Dean reluctantly allows Sam to patch him up. But Sam soon realizes there is a lot more wrong with his brother than just surface wounds.
Set mid-season nine (between S09E14 Captives & S09E15 #THINMAN)
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John turns up at the motel in the small hours of the morning, expecting his boys to be in bed. But he soon discovers one soldier who has been taking his orders too seriously...
Pre-series: Dean is 7, Sam is 3.
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Dean had completed his mission. Abaddon was dead. Sam supposed he had staggered off to bed. Well, to his room at least. They may not be cooped up in the same motel room together, but it didn't mean that Sam wasn't aware of the fact that his older brother wasn't sleeping...
The death of Abaddon and the subsequent tense car ride back to the bunker leaves the growing chasm between the two hunters even larger. Soon after their return, Sam discovers a disturbing scene featuring his brother and starts to realise the effect the Mark of Cain is beginning to have on its owner.
Set after s09e21 King of the Damned, slight cannon divergence.